Questions tagged [system-repair-disc]
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How to prevent the sethc.exe hack?
There is an exploit that allows users to reset the Administrator password on Windows. It is done by booting from a repair disk, starting command prompt, and replacing C:\Windows\System32\sethc.exe with C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe.
When the sticky…
Jesus Pedro
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Create a Windows 7 System Repair ISO?
According to the Microsoft website I can run "Create a system repair disc" from the start menu to burn a recovery Disc. However, there are many situations (including not having a disk drive) where this cannot be done.
My goal is to create a bootable…
MaDMaD Mad
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How to fix Windows 7 when System Recovery Options hangs?
The battery power ran out on my HP G60 laptop and it shut down. Even after recharging, Windows 7 will now not start up. After any attempted startup, it bluescreens and takes me to the "Startup Repair (recommended)" / "Start Windows Normally"…
seansand
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How can I create a recovery drive for Windows 8.1?
I just installed Windows 8.1 on my computer. I am trying to create a recovery drive.
I click start, type "recovery", hit "Create a recovery drive". I click next once, and this is what I see:
We can't create a recovery drive on this PC
Some required…
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Windows 8 upgrade Recovery Disk
I have upgraded to Windows 8 from Win 7. I want to create a recovery disk for Windows 8, just in case something goes wrong. I didn't find the option of creating it from the control panel.
How do I create a Recovery CD/DVD?
Kumar Bibek
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Using a Windows System Repair Disc to restore a System Image on a blank HDD
I got a simple question that I unfortunately can't find a simple answer for anywhere. This is the scenario: I made a System Image of my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit PC on an external HDD. I've also created a Windows System Repair Disc of the same…
puggsoy
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How to create bootable recovery partition to restore windows 7 partition as it is now
I have freshly installed and configured a Windows 7 laptop for a relative who will for sure get tons of malware, viruses, etc. over a short period of time.
I would like to make a restore partition which will revert the system to the state I…
mario
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Reoccuring Issue with Windows Fails to Start After Shutdown
Recently I have completed data migration from Intel i330 120GB SSD to Intel 535 240GB SSD using Intel Data Migration Software. Intel i330 was my first SSD which I also used for data migration from my HDD before that.
After migration I booted SSD and…
Boris_yo
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Trick Windows 7 into downloading a repair disk without an optical drive
I have, over time, encountered numerous problems which have caused me to repair/restore Windows 7. I don't have an optical drive installed on my system which causes me various issues including not being able to download the repair disk image. I was…
Oleg Silkin
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Repair Windows 7 without the disk
Is it possible to repair Windows 7 without the disk?
This PC hasn't been scanned for a while. Last time the PC was on, it was scanned using Avast Free Antivirus. It detected some corrupt zip files, worms, etc in the Windows folder. I chose to delete…
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How to verify recovery disks created from recovery partition?
For my Lenovo T400 with Windows 7, I created three DVDs from its recovery partition. I was wondering
if it is better to verify that the
recovery disks are working and how to? I don't
want my current system to be
overwritten.
if I can delete the…
Tim
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How to use my recovery CDs if my netbook has no CD drive?
I'm not really tech savy but am going to give this a try as the Netbook was a freebee. The hard drive is toast, I have the recovery discs that came with the netbook from the factory. If I replace with a new one 1. Can I use these discs on the new…
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How do I create a bootable USB Flash PcRepair Kit?
I do PC repair on the side and am looking to use a bootable flash drive as a PcRepair Kit. I'm also looking for anit-virus, anti-malware, Data-Recovery, Hardware testing. It would be great if it was embedded in an OS like XP or linux.
James Mertz
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System Repair unavailable after moving Windows partition
After discovering that my System Reserved partition was much smaller than Microsoft recommends, I decided to use GParted to extend it with some of the unallocated space. Unfortunately, there was no unallocated space between the System Reserved and…
osvein
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Windows 7 Repair using installation DISK say 0 MB on the system drive
Last Night due to some reason or so my laptop with windows 7 SP 1 64 Bit crashed. I get the blue screen every time I try to boot in. So I decided to repair it using the Installation media.
Now , I am using a USB as an installation Media , and I made…
Genocide_Hoax
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